genre extremes in your cd collection

some stuff from the lasers edge that I want to get that is off the beaten track:

Obskuria - Discovery of Obskuria
St Mikael - Mind of Fire
Moon Safari - Blomljud
Moon Safari - A doorway to summer
Electric Orange - Abegelaufen

God, it's really a question of what don't I have. I have some 5,700 songs downloaded on my computer with a year by year list of the top songs from 1951 - 2008. You name it, and I probably have it. I grew up loving much of the music my parents loved, which was a lot of Doo Wop music of the late 50's early 60's. That transitioned to a lot of the R&B of the late 60's and they also liked rock music of the 70's.

Through my own experiences I found a niche in metal starting in the early 80's, though I enjoyed quite a bit they came out of the 80's. My tastes progressed on into what was the alternative movement, though begrudgingly. There isn't too much that I don't like. I'm not much of a fan of Rap, but I do enjoy some of the early stuff in the 80's. I love the old crooners like Sinatra, Bennett, and Martin. I could listen to Barry Manilow in one setting, and probably Slayer in the next!

I always love the look on people's faces who might not be familiar with my musical tastes (especially the girlfriend's friends) when they see the CD collection. You can tell they think, "oh, no one of these guys" then they get to the end where the reggae is and it puzzles them to no end.

I have everything from metal to 80s pop to folk to celtic to country (nothing past the mid-late 80's) to alternative country to a little rap to oldies and many more. Bands range from Antestor to John Denver, Sepultura to Gordon Lightfoot, or Iced Earth to Fleetwood Mac.

i guess i have death metal records at the most extreme end and eighties pop records at the other that i never listen too

Phil Collins and Coldplay to Opeth and Slipknot

xyz wrote:

Phil Collins and Coldplay to Opeth and Slipknot

i did not mind phil collins in genesis but i admit i have most of his solo albums

Jewel, Sheryl Crow, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, the cranberries, Mozart...

Behemoth, Immortal, Samael, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir....